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In a C# 2008 windows application, I have the following linq to sql statement that points to a sql server 2008 r2 database. The following query returns null. But there are records to be fetched.

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 string SubmissionPkgID = "valid string value"; var varGoodTransCount = (from t in rData.Transactions join iw in rData.Ibooks on t.ImportID equals iw.ImportID join ip in rData.IPackages on iw.PID equals ip.PID where (ip.trc_num != null) && ip.trc_num == SubmissionPkgID group ip by ip.trc_num into g select new { trc_num = g.Key, Frequency = g.Count() }).FirstOrDefault(); 

Note: SubmissionPkgID does contain a valid value. Where i'm worng?

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Your linq query look ok it must work. rData.IPackages.trc_num is int or mumeric right? so you may use HasValue instead of checking Null value.

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string SubmissionPkgID = "valid string value"; var varGoodTransCount = (from t in rData.Transactions join iw in rData.Ibooks on t.ImportID equals iw.ImportID join ip in rData.IPackages on iw.PID equals ip.PID where (ip.trc_num.HasValue) && ip.trc_num == SubmissionPkgID group ip by ip.trc_num into g select new { trc_num = g.Key, Frequency = g.Count() }) .FirstOrDefault(); 

Hope this will help you.

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